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Article | 26/08/2010 Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard
As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, ...
Article | 26/08/2010 Gosling: Oracle could still live up to 2007 Java pledge
There is still a way for Oracle to calm down people concerned about the fate of the Java programming language under the vendor's stewardship, accordin...
Article | 26/08/2010 Eucalyptus strengthens its back end
Two months after releasing version 2 of the enterprise edition of its open-source cloud software, Eucalyptus Systems has posted a new version of the s...
Article | 25/08/2010 Vyatta routing software certified for IPv6
The Vyatta open-source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addr...
Article | 24/08/2010 Microsoft: 'We love open source'
Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment that Linux is a "cancer" that threatened Microsoft's intellectual p...
Article | 24/08/2010 Requiem for an OS: OpenSolaris board closes shop
Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as...
Article | 21/08/2010 Google makes Chrome devs dig into pockets
Google on Thursday announced it would require new Chrome extension developers to pay a one-time US$5 registration fee as a way to stymie malicious add...
Article | 20/08/2010 Vim editor updated with modern language support
The latest edition of the widely used Vim text editor now supports both the Lua programming language as well as the latest versions of Python and Perl...
Article | 14/08/2010 Oracle signals an end to OpenSolaris
Oracle appeared to confirm this week what many in the computer industry already suspected: The OpenSolaris project is dead.
Article | 16/08/2010 Oracle, Amazon offer new ways to run Linux from afar
Organizations hoping to streamline their deployments of Linux got two new options this week for running the open source OS remotely.
Article | 12/08/2010 Forrester: Open-source BI has pros and cons
A new Forrester Research report finds that while a number of open-source BI (business intelligence) offerings are providing many of the capabilities e...
Article | 11/08/2010 Droid 2: And Other Hot Android Phones to Watch For
Surprising no one, Motorola will swap the original Droid phone with the Droid 2 on Thursday, when it launches on Verizon Wireless.
Article | 11/08/2010 Linux Foundation offers open source compliance checklist
Organizations that are interested in using open source in their own products but are wary of intellectual property issues might want to examine a new,...
Article | 3/08/2010 New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech
Harnessing a pair of protocols developed by Google, the newly released version of Linux kernel should be able to speed network traffic throughput cons...
Article | 31/07/2010 SAP warms to open source
Although not traditionally known for its contributions to the open-source community, the German-based SAP is adopting more open-source software, as we...